Summary

During this chapter, you learned all about the basics of the programmable pipeline and how to write simplistic vertex and pixel shaders to get your code to render models in an interesting way.

With a basic understanding of the programmable pipeline, you can move on to something that all games need: good level-of-detail algorithms.

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